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“Barges, Not Bargeships!”
Next time you’re sailing on the Danube and see enormous vessels gliding silently across the water, chances are you’ve come across HSP’s TS-type barges. These “giants of a thousand faces” are not only experts in transporting steel bridge structures — they play an indispensable role in major domestic and international bridge construction, demolition, and special […]
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Connecting Mohács and Újmohács – The New Jewel of the Danube is Rising
The Mohács Danube Bridge is a planned road crossing over the Danube River, currently under construction between Mohács and Újmohács in Hungary. The construction began on August 30, 2024, and represents far more than just the creation of a new piece of transport infrastructure. The project’s primary goal is to strengthen the region’s economic growth […]
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The Missing Note in the Final Chord – In Memory of Zoltán Müller
There are engineering tasks that reach beyond calculations, structural drawings, and construction schedules.Moments when the dismantling of a bridge also marks the closing of a shared story — one written by people: engineers, experts, friends, and sometimes by those who are no longer with us, yet whose work lives on in structures, in decisions, in […]
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Clark Ádám Returns Home: A Tactical Journey on the Danube
On the evening of Thursday, June 26, our iconic flagship, the Clark Ádám floating crane, safely returned to Hungary after spending exactly two months in Serbia. But the journey was far from simple. Due to rapidly falling water levels, the return became a real tactical challenge: a race against time and inches. The 285 river-kilometer […]
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Synchronized Lifts on the Sava – Bridge Dismantling in Belgrade
A major engineering project is currently underway in Belgrade: the dismantling of the Old Sava Bridge has begun, with HSP Ltd. providing full-scale waterborne support. The sight of multi-ton steel bridge sections suspended above the river is both striking and a testament to the technical precision required. Work began on the left bank, where the […]
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We’ve Broken the Curse – Barrel Rolling on the New Danube Bridge
Long ago, bridge builders struck a deal with the devil: help us build safely and without delay, and in return, the first soul to cross the bridge would be his. To cheat this dark bargain, a tradition was born—before any person set foot on a newly completed bridge, a wine barrel would be rolled across […]
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Playing with Centimetres – an Exceptional Manoeuvre with 200 Tonnes of Steel
We waited for months for the water level of the Danube in Budapest to be right for the installation of the pylon of the pedestrian bridge next to the National Athletics Stadium.
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We Build on Water
In recent years, in view of the great interest and the large-scale waterfront development concept plans, development projects have been launched in Hungary, too, which aimed at creating innovative floating structures with different technical solutions for different utilisation conditions and purposes.
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HSP 007 – We Don’t Like Surprises
Today, it is inconceivable that a bridge construction, river regulation work or any water construction task is not preceded by a thorough riverbed survey and a comprehensive examination of the entire work area.
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